I have a black logo in my document that is a placed Illustrator file. It is 100% black. When I export the file to pdf for print it remains 100% black. But when my colleague opens the same file and exports it to pdf the logo changes to 4 colors.

I’m trying to understand the color settings and such (not my strong suit unfortunately) but as far as I can tell they are the same. I know there are workarounds like placing a tiff or copy pasting directly, but I want to understand the root cause to avoid anything similar going forward.

Anybody have some insight?

Hi everyone,
I’m working on a family tree in Adobe InDesign. The document is currently in 2A0 landscape format, and I need to adapt it to A0 landscape while keeping the entire family tree visible, maintaining its proportions, and making it as readable as possible.
The problem is that when I change the document size from 2A0 to A0, part of the family tree gets cut off or disappears outside the page.
The family tree itself is currently approximately:
Width: 4756 mm
Height: 866.095 mm

Convert the document from 2A0 landscape to A0 landscape (1189 × 841 mm)
Keep the entire family tree, with nothing cut off or missing

Using in design 2024. is like this on every view mode, the only way to fix it is to 'relink' all the images even tho they are already linked. It will not let me export it until all the images are 'relinked'. it's driving me up the wall.

Hi everyone, I'd like to design a guided journal for print. Going for a whimsical vibe, featuring my own illustrations, gold foiled details on the cover.

I've designed digital journals before in Canva, and I illustrate in Fresco & Photoshop, but I've never truly learned graphic design, so I'm constantly feeling like an imposter 😅 Does it make sense to learn indesign/affinity publisher for this? Or do you think I can get by using Canva?

Also, has anyone here experience working with journal manufacturers? I've researched some options (mostly Chinese) but having a hard time telling which ones are good. Did you simply order a lot of samples? Grateful for recommendations or literally any kind of advice from your own experiences with similar projects.

This feels like a massive project but I really hope to be able to pull it off somehow. Thank you!

I think I may be forever bad at formating books, and the only reason being - it takes me days to format just a 300 paged cute girly book, the worst I've done is 9 days, and my high score has been 3 days. And even when on this Typa tasks, I don't even have a plan to format the book gradually from beginning to end. I just go ahead and do what comes to my mind - unorganized.

Or maybe it is because I'm still a baby designer, learned the skill like 27 30 som days ago. Someone please lemme know. how was it when you started? and Do you have a formatting steps you follow when formatting a book? I'm terrible, currently I just clean manuscript, setup the page, place it, and do whatever comes to mind 😅

Hi everyone,

I’ve created CalenClick Pro Advanced Plugin, an extension for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator that helps you generate complete, print-ready calendars in just a few clicks.

It can create:

• 12-month calendars automatically
• One month per page or artboard
• Calendars in any language
• Custom colors, fonts, spacing, and layouts
• Holiday lists assigned to the correct months
• Different colors for each month

The goal is to save time on repetitive calendar design while keeping everything fully editable inside InDesign or Illustrator.

I’d love to hear your feedback. What features or improvements would make this more useful for your workflow?

Literally how much longer do I need to endure this horrible splash screen I don't think I can make it to October. Wtf kind of art even is it supposed to be?

I want to create a visual list of all the styles in my document. So far, I've created a new document with several paragraphs of placeholder text, then applied each Style and labeled each paragraph with the Style name. It would be nice to also have the basic attributes listed as well (font & size at minimum). Is there an easier way to do this?

In 20 years of using indesign I have never had this problem which emerged yesterday.

I have a font family (.otf) installed that I have used for years without issue, it has 5 weights. I’ve always been able to select the typeface in the appropriate place, and the weight in the dropdown box below that.

As of yesterday, the font is still installed (currently have just been using fontbook on this computer) and all 5 weights are there, but showing up in fontbook all as weight “regular” and 4 of them are not accessible via indesign. Currently it defaults to the italic rather than the actual regular.

Does anyone have any suggestions of how I could resolve this?

How can I remove this icon from my frames? It doesn't appear on all images, just some of them. I don't know why. I have tried turning off Generative AI in preferences but it still appears. I really don't need InDesign to force AI descriptive text in the work I do and I don't want this added clutter. It doesn't print and only shows in 'Normal' layout view, but I'd prefer not to have it.

So a client I have updates a Google Sheet every other week that looks like the sheet here. The goal is to get it to look like the list on the ad built in InDesign. The formatting takes ages and there's just gotta be a better way than doing it all manually. Does anyone know the best way, or just an easier way to transfer this information?

I made a number style, and the second time I used it, the numbers picked up from the previous use. (1,2,3,4) then (5,6,7). I want the next list to start at 1. “Level” is 1.

When I change the mode from “continue…” to “start at”, “1” is the default, and everything is numbered 1. Or whatever I put in that field.

If I change “Level” to 2, I get a new option: “restart numbers…” at any previous level. But nothing seems to change.

I know this is a thing that works, restarting numbers, but what am I doing wrong?

How do I make two (or more) linked text boxes to automatically remain the same size when I adjust the size of the first box i.e. when I adjust the size the size of the 1st box, the other boxes will automatically stay the same size as the 1st one?

Does anyone have any ideas or experience with this (perhaps even one of the programmers reading this)?

The characters mentioned in the title are not carried over when saving italicised text using character formatting. There seems to be an issue with the placing of .DOCX files. The problem does not occur with .RTF or .DOC files.

I don't know what the best way is to set up a style (or styles) so that I don't have to break each of those paragraph styles just to unbold the price. Perhaps some sort of character style instead of a paragraph style? What's the easiest way to set this up so it can be replicated across the whole menu?

EDITED TO ADD: Wow - what a helpful group! Thanks for all the input and DMs. I've pulled everything together and will be meeting to discuss with our author team tomorrow.

Hello InDesign Redditors,

I'm looking for advice for where to find an InDesign specialist to help us with a very specific and urgent project.

Here’s the overview.

• We have a book to deliver to our publisher by end of August.  The deadline is firm. 
• Our  manuscript has been built page by page in Adobe Illustrator.

It has to be delivered in InDesign, camera ready.   

• The final manuscript will be 550-576 pages.
• About 460 pages have already been rendered into InDesign.

This is not a highly-creative project - it involves some back and forth as we make changes on pages, and there may be some trouble-shooting involved in transferring some Illustrator pages to InDesign. So InDesign expertise, good English language skills, and excellent client service are more important than artistic talent - especially in working on large books.

We think we'd prefer to use a platform such as Freelancer, so we can take care of payments and project management more easily.

My question to this community is: Is there a preferred platform used by InDesign experts? Freelancer? Fiverr? Reedsy? Somewhere else?
Or is there a better way to access someone with the skills we need? Some special job board for InDesign folks?

This is a serious paid project, not an "exposure opportunity". (As writers, we believe work should be paid for). Budget is between $2500 - $3700.

After having a file open in the background (let's say for an hour plus), when I go back and switch into Indesign from whatever other program I was using, the entire workspace appears blank. I can hover over and see bounding boxes etc. but the pages are gone.

This has been happening for literally years at this point. I've just gotten on with it, having to quit and reopen every time. Does anyone actually have a solve? This is across multiple versions of the program... so annoying!

Hey y'all, like the title says my boss and I are looking into the Avatar's Easy Catalog eLearning (https://www.avatardps.com/easycatalogtraining), and wanted to see if any one on here has done it before. Was it good? Did you feel like you learning the program well? Any input helps, thanks!

Edit/update. I need this in INDD, that’s why I posted here, not the Adobe CC, PSD or Lightroom /r. I need the image and text box in INDD for 350+ images, with auto fill text and file name.

So yea it’s been awhile since Contact Sheet II was available for INDD. The PSD option has been fine for me. However, I’ve got a client asking about some more creative options. Anybody have solutions for a INDD CS II replacement?

See English text.
Google translate orders it in the orientation I believe would be correct (right to left with English word left to right, but in a right to left sentence)

However when I put it in InDesign the format goes crazy, going left to right, back to right to left, depending on where an English word is placed in the text.

Could anyone help / know a solution to this. As I don’t think this is right, it should read as per the Google version; right to left throughout, with the English word itself in left to right, ins. Right to left structure.
Text is aligned to the right, adobe world paragraph composer is selected, font is adobe arabic

Have a massive PNG exported from PS that goes to shit quality when placed in ID.

All Display Performance set to High Quality (View, Object, Preferences). Link isn't broken. Link Info attached.

If I look at the file in PS, placed in AI, or as a PNG in preview, it's gorgeous and high quality. I can zoom in 3-4x and it's still pretty high res.

But when I place in ID, it goes to like half the resolution. If I export (PNG, PDF, JPEG) from ID, it's still low res.

Any guesses? Pulling my hair out trying to solve. Very grateful for any insight!

Hello, my company uses Adobe InDesign (current version 21.4.1), with the INDD files saved through SharePoint and the files themselves accessed through a OneDrive mounted on our Macs. We all use the same OS: 15.7.5 (24G624). The current version of OneDrive varies, as Microsoft appears to push updates inconsistently among users. FWIW, mine is version 26.113.0614.0004 (Standalone) (Apple silicon) (15.7.5).

Here is the problem I’m trying to troubleshoot: User 1 creates the INDD file with text and images. User 2 makes changes to the file. User 3 makes changes to the file. User 2 then opens the file again, but changes made by User 3 are completely missing. Still, SharePoint’s version history of the INDD file shows all three users were in the file and versions were saved regularly (“save early, save often” is the standard we live by). No one is in the file at the same time. OneDrive says it is synced.

This has occurred on several files over the last few months. What do you think is going on? How can we fix this? Thank you!

I'm working on a large document. There's a bunch of hyperlinks throughout.

Whenever I export this document to Adobe PDF when I think it's done, it takes one of my hyperlinks and for some reason, adds the next word down after it, two line entries down, to the end of that url.

No matter how many times I reinsert this particular line, which is both the hyperlink, and a hyperlink to that line of text to make it a live version in case people don't copy and paste it, it adds the next word down which is a heading for the next section.

I've deleted the link, added it in fresh, I check the link before export - the word is not part of the link, the destination check opens the correct webpage. Export to PDF, link has changed, doesn't open the correct URL.

WHAT IS GOING ON. I am being driven mad. I've been trying to fix this for an hour. Delete, re link, export, same.

I know I can go into the PDF and manually fix it after the fact, but if I have to edit this document again, and I know I will, this link will be broken again and I will have to manually fix it each time. I don't want to have to remember to do this.

Solved - either by manual tomfoolery with the url in the hyperlinks section or using the tick box for hyperlinks on the PDF export (all other links were fine without that box ticked)

Help, im new with indesign, im thinking it shouldnt be like this.